Crashed and burned yesterday--did well until after work when I stopped at the grocery store on my way home for just some turkey sausage and to see if they had the ramen noodles Jeff likes for lunch, and I binged on a box (yes, a whole box) of Fancy Cakes and then ended up getting ice cream at DQ with Jeff after dinner Moving on to a brighter note...

WOOHOO! I got up this morning and did a 30-minute Walk Away the Pounds DVD. I woke up around 4am from a bad dream (that'll teach me to have DQ before bed, right? ), and rather than try to snooze for another hour till my alarm went off, I just got up. I didn't think "walking away the pounds" would be much of a workout since I don't have a problem with walking--I can walk for miles and be okay--but it sure made me sweat!

So now I've had my breakfast here about 5am and plan to spend my day eating something like this:

I'm sure I will add something to the pasta (maybe some broccoli and honey dijon marinade?), so that will add a few calories and hopefully another veggie. As it is above, I'm at about 1230 calories, already worked out 30 minutes, and will drink at least 3 liters of water.

yesterday must have been the day to binge, It was so cold here I roasted a turkey, with stuffing and healthy veggies but, I ate way too much of it!! I don't know what came over me but, I got up T 5 with my husband and got right back on track to "lol" Have a great day!

We're all entitled to a bad day every now and then. I ate my dinner last night kinds early, couldn't hold out any longer and then I made dinner for my husband, he came home kinda late and so I ate dinner again. Oh well.

Anyway, Jillybean I was wondering how you prepare the spaghetti squash. It's a mystery vegetable to me, but I think I might like it. Thanks.

Yesterday I started out very well. I had cranbery and psyllium (like Ilene suggested), I had a shake for lunch (for the first time in ages, I couldn't even remember where the protein powder was), I had chicken and cooked cabbage for supper and then ... and then ... cheerios, popcorn and beer.
My calorie count was OK but Lawdy! what did I think I was gonna build with those nutrients? muscle? I think not. Probably two punds of acne

So today I'll start out the same and take veggies, tuna, ff cottage cheese and a small bag of cheerios to work this evening.
Upper body weights and walking.

I don't follow instructions for cooking spaghetti squash--they make it too complicated Everything I read about boiling or steaming makes me wonder how big of a pot or steamer people must have, since these are not tiny squashes! I don't bake them because I just don't have the patience to wait that long. The microwave instructions I read usually say to put the squash in a pan/dish with some water and then cover with plastic wrap...not happening. I microwave the whole squash for 3 minutes, then cut it in half lengthwise (it's too hard if you don't micriwave it first, and I'm not about to try hacking it with a chainsaw ). Then I scoop out the seeds with a spoon and just put the 2 halves back in the microwave skin side down (like 2 big oblong bowls) and nuke for another 10 minutes. Then I use a fork to scrape out the flesh--the end! I've done the pan-of-water and plastic-wrap method before as well (since I didn't know any better), and I tasted absolutely no difference in flavor or texture.

I eat my squash as a spaghetti substitue (though there are lots of other things you can do with it). I just make a big pot of hearty sauce. My latest sauce concoction included:

about 1.25 jars of Franceso Rinaldi pasta sauce (the no salt added kind--the .25 was just because I had an opened jar in the fridge )

1 box of frozen chopped spinach microwaved until at least unfrozen, then pureed in the Magic Bullet

4 sweet Italian-style turkey sausages (I used 4 because I knew I had 4 servings of squash, so this made it easiest to calculate calories by averaging 1 sausage per serving)

I would have liked to have added some canned (and rinsed) diced tomatoes as well, but I realized too late that I was out. To me, the key is a really good, hearty sauce because the squash doesn't have much flavor to me (personal opinion).

Thanks so much for the squash info including the link you sent me to Rosario. It sounds like something that I would like. I am definitely gonna get me some. By the way there is a great website that has fantastic nutritional information on tons of foods - nutritiondata.com - check it out.